Beyond Missio Dei

In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to gobeyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise andethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denouncethe inheritance of the mission movement thattransformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is asimultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to dojustice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement.Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is betweenthose seeking to keep the current mission paradigm alive out ofhabit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathalthat essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and theirintentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the otherside are thosewho enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis topursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy asupposed missional mandatory. This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resourcespedagogically, to teachof mission, missiology, WorldChristianity, and intercultural theology.